topic Re: FTP question in Operating System - HP-UX

FTP question

cam9269 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:13:11 GMT

Hi Gurus,

I have this task which needs to do FTP's from HPUX > Windows and HPUX > HPUX servers.

I've found Clay's ftpput.pl and ftpget.pl, all's doing well with these scripts. There's just one requirement which I can't get the scripts to produce - and that is to delete multiple remote files without performing transfers

On an ordinary FTP command it would look like this:
-----------------------------------
user $LOGNAME $PASSWD
bin
cd $DIRECTORY
mdele * <<<<--- This bit
bye
-----------------------------------

TIA!

Re: FTP question

Suraj K Sankari — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:04:41 GMT

Hi,

yes you can used mdelete into your script
It should be mdelete not mdele

Suraj

Re: FTP question

TTr — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:27:56 GMT

> It should be mdelete...
All ftp commands can be shortened down to a few characters as long as they can be unique and parsed out from other commnads that begin with the same character(s). In this case the "mdelete" command can be shortened down to "mde" (mdir also starts with "md"). If you type "md" at the ftp prompt you get "ambiguous command error".

Re: FTP question

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:35:46 GMT

Hi:

I suggest you examine the documentation accompanying Perl's Net::FTP module:

http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/libnet-1.22/Net/FTP.pm

You will find that there is a 'delete' method and 'rmdir' method. The later can be made recursive.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: FTP question

Steven Schweda — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:25:11 GMT

> All ftp commands can be shortened down [...]

You're talking about _which_ FTP client
program? And the questioner is using what?

Re: FTP question

TTr — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:04:23 GMT

> You're talking about _which_ FTP client
program? And the questioner is using what?T

The questioner is using "mdele" instead of "mdelete" so I am sure he is using and is aware of the shortened commands.